Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. CONTRIBUTORS v
4. THE INTEGRATION OF THE ELITE AND WIDER COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS, 1500–1700: EVIDENCE FROM VISUAL CULTURE1 1
5. NORTHERN MAPS: RE-NEGOTIATING SPACE AND PLACE IN THE NORTHERN ISLES AND NORWAY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 24
6. A FORGOTTEN DIASPORA: THE CHILDREN OF ENSLAVED AND ‘FREE COLOURED’ WOMEN AND HIGHLAND SCOTS IN GUYANA BEFORE EMANCIPATION 49
7. BENNACHIE, THE ‘COLONY’, BALQUHAIN AND FETTERNEAR–SOME ARCHIVAL SOURCES 70
8. CROFTING: A CLEAN SLATE 84
9. BOOK REVIEWS
10. The Kings of Alba, c.1000–c.1130 By Alasdair Ross 98
11. The Stewart Earls of Orkney By Peter Anderson 101
12. British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, c.1560–1688 By David Worthington 104
13. Lordship and Power in the North of Scotland: the Noble House of Huntly 1603–1690 By Barry Robertson 107
14. Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660–1688 By Allan Kennedy 110
15. Famine in Scotland. The ‘Ill Years’ of the 1690s By Karen J. Cullen 112
16. From An Antique Land. Visual Representations of the Highlands and Islands 1700–1880 By Anne Macleod 114
17. The Temperance Movement in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1830–1845: ‘Distilled Death and Liquid Damnation’ By Aaron Hoffman 116
18. Scotland’s First Oil Boom. The Scottish Shale-Oil Industry, 1851–1914 By John H. McKay 119
19. A Swedish Field Trip to the Outer Hebrides: In Memory of Sven T. Kjellberg and Olof Hasslöf Compiled and edited by Alexander Fenton with Mark A. Mulhern 121
20. Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars by Iain J. M. Robertson 124
21. The Making of the Modern Scottish Highlands 1939–1965: Withstanding the ‘Colossus of Advancing Materialism’ 129